By Amina Niasse NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. homebuilder confidence rose in December, indicating easing interest rates may be bolstering sales conditions for builders who had struggled to attract prospective…
By Huw Jones LONDON (Reuters) – Multi-trillion dollar non-banking finance saw its first major retreat last year since the global financial crisis in 2009, with the shrinkage due to higher…
(Reuters) – The average interest rate on the most popular U.S. home loan fell this week to below 7% for the first time since August as Treasury market yields dropped…
LONDON (Reuters) – The European Central Bank left interest rates unchanged as expected on Thursday and signalled an early end to its last remaining bond purchase scheme, which helped support…
By Rishav Chatterjee (Reuters) – Bullish bets firmed on most emerging Asian currencies as expectations of an end to U.S. interest rate hikes triggered an easing in the greenback, boosting…
By Suban Abdulla LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s property market saw some recovery in November as a surge in mortgage rates eased, but surveyors remain cautious about the year ahead, an…
By Noel Randewich (Reuters) -The Dow Jones Industrial Average on Wednesday notched its first record high close since January 2022 after the Federal Reserve signaled lower borrowing costs are coming…
BOGOTA (Reuters) – Non-financial industry companies in Latin America are facing a negative outlook for next year because of continued high interest rates, slow regional economic growth and projected low…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – World Bank chief economist Indermit Gill on Wednesday said past experience showed that interest rates may stop going up, but they are unlikely to come down “anytime…
By Hannah Lang (Reuters) – After ending 2023 on a high, crypto investors will be watching central bank interest rates and a U.S. regulatory decision on new bitcoin products as…
By Indradip Ghosh BENGALURU (Reuters) – The Swiss National Bank will hold its key policy rate until at least the third quarter of next year, longer than the European Central…
By Ariba Shahid KARACHI (Reuters) – Pakistan’s central bank is expected to hold its key rate steady at a fourth straight policy meeting on Tuesday, with inflation forecast to start…
(Reuters) – Interest rates on the most common type of U.S. home loan fell for a sixth straight week to the lowest in almost four months on the back of…
By Ananta Agarwal (Reuters) – Real estate investment trusts (REITs) that own and manage apartments are expected to see a bump in their revenue from a rise in renewed leases…
(Reuters) – The European Central Bank (ECB) will cut interest rates by 25 basis points (bps) in each meeting starting April next year, Goldman Sachs wrote in a note on…
By Prerana Bhat BENGALURU (Reuters) – The European Central Bank will cut interest rates in the second quarter of next year, earlier than previously thought, according to a slim majority…
By Prerana Bhat and Indradip Ghosh BENGALURU (Reuters) – The U.S. Federal Reserve will hold interest rates until at least July, later than earlier thought, according to a slim majority…
(Reuters) – Deutsche Bank said on Wednesday it expects the European Central Bank to cut interest rates by 150 basis points (bps) next year, 50 bps more than their earlier…
MANILA (Reuters) – The governor of the Philippine central bank said on Wednesday it could either keep interest rates steady or raise them at its policy meeting next week. The…
A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Kevin Buckland European stocks are set for a bullish start if they follow the Asia-Pacific lead, buoyed by…
By Howard Schneider WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Federal Reserve officials appear on track to end the year with interest rate hikes as a thing of the past but with a…
BEIJING (Reuters) – China is likely to implement proactive fiscal policy next year as there is still a need for the world’s second-biggest economy to realise stable growth, a former…
By Mumal Rathore BENGALURU (Reuters) – The Bank of Canada will start cutting interest rates in the second quarter of next year as inflation and the economy slow, according to…
(Reuters) – Traders on Thursday maintained bets the Federal Reserve will hold interest rates steady for three more meetings before starting to cut interest rates, after a government report showed…
By Davide Barbuscia NEW YORK (Reuters) – The U.S. Treasury yield curve, which plots the yields of different government bond maturities, will likely steepen in 2024 as the Federal Reserve…